13 Little-Known Movies That Time Travel Movie Lovers Will Love
Time travel is something that almost all of us are interested in and perhaps even dream of, but as the great geniuses of our time, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, have said, it is only possible in theory. Fortunately, we have movies and they come to our rescue! In this content, we have compiled the time travel movies you may not know much about and ranked them according to their IMDb scores.
13. Anti Matter (2016)
IMDb 5.7
Summary: Ana, an Oxford student, manages to pass through a wormhole but then realizes that she can't form new memories. The film follows Ana's increasingly desperate attempts to make sense of what happened and to find out who is behind the rising fear in her life.
Cast: Yaiza Figueroa, Philippa Carson, Tom Barber-Dufy
Director: Keir Burrows
12. Time Trap (2017)
IMDb 6.3
Summary: An archaeology professor disappears in a deep cave he entered to do research. A group of students enter the cave to search for their professor and realize that time works differently here, and that a few seconds spent in the cave is equivalent to a year outside.
Cast: Reiley McClendon, Cassidy Gifford, Brianne Howey
Director: Mark Dennis
11. Time Lapse (2014)
IMDb 6.5
Summary: After discovering a time machine that can photograph the future, three friends use this extraordinary discovery to win bets. At first things go well, but greed gets the better of them and the photographs reveal uglier truths. In the end, the movie teaches us a lesson about 'not messing with time'.
Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn
Director: Bradley King
10. The Final Countdown (1980)
IMDb 6.7
Summary: After a violent storm, the battleship USS Nimitz mysteriously returns to 1941, the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and appears near Hawaii. Traveling back in time, the crew is torn about whether or not to intervene against the Japanese ahead of the attack 'a few hours later'.
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
Director: Don Taylor
9. Primer (2004)
IMDb 6.8
Summary: Two engineers 'accidentally' invent a time machine in their garage and their independent journeys into the past lead to serious problems. Costing $7,000 and immersing you in theoretical physics, the movie attracted great attention at the Sundance Film Festival.
Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
Director: Shane Carruth
8. Triangle (2009)
IMDb 6.9
Summary: After a car accident, Jess survives and goes on a yacht trip with friends to clear her head. But inside, she feels a discomfort that she doesn't understand. And the yacht she is on gets caught in a storm. Jess, whose discomfort has increased even more, boards an abandoned ship with her friends, and events unfold in the most unpredictable way.
Cast: Melissa George, Joshua McIver, Jack Taylor
Director: Christopher Smith
7. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
IMDb 7.1
Summary: 3 young employees of a magazine see an advertisement in the newspaper: 'Time traveling partner wanted'. Believing that something good will come out of this advertisement, the young people follow Kenneth, the owner of the advertisement. And one of them decides to go with Kenneth. But Kenneth is extremely paranoid and offers no life guarantees to his companion.
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson
Director: Colin Trevorrow
6. Timecrimes (2007)
IMDb 7.1
Summary: Hector is stabbed by a mysterious man while following a naked woman he sees in the forest. While trying to escape, he enters a device in the place where he takes shelter and thanks to this device, he goes back in time and is in the middle of a paradoxical situation. Because now there is more than one Hector and he has to kill the others to become the real Hector.
Cast: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenega
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
5. Time After Time (1979)
IMDb 7.1
Summary: H.G.Wells introduces his surgeon friend John, unaware of his true identity, to the time machine he invented. Later, Wells learns that his friend John is - hold on - Jack the Ripper. But in the meantime, John has traveled back to 1979 with the time machine. Wells takes responsibility for the machine he invented and goes after John.
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburger, David Warner
Director: Nicholas Meyer
4. Sleeper (1973)
IMDb 7.1
Summary: Together with Woody Allen, we go to the year 2173 and laugh out loud again. Miles Monroe, an ulcer patient, is put to sleep in 1973 as a result of a mistake after his surgery and wakes up 200 years later. But now a dictator rules the world and Monroe is the only hope people have against this dictator.
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck
Director: Woody Allen
3. Coherence (2013)
IMDb 7.2
Summary: A group of friends gather for dinner on the night a comet is about to pass very close to Earth. When the power goes out during dinner and they realize that there is electricity in a mysterious house, their lives take a completely different turn. They must now familiarize themselves with different worlds and ways of life.
Cast: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon
Director: James Ward Byrkit
2. The Time Machine (1960)
IMDb 7.5
Summary: Hold on tight, we're going to the year 802,701! George, who has no interest in the time period he is in, travels through the future in a time machine he invented. Two world wars and the atomic bomb disappoint him, but the real shock awaits him hundreds of thousands of years later. In the year 802,701, George finds himself in an environment where humanity is divided into two hostile races and a brutal war is raging.
Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux
Director: George Pal
1. La Jetee (1962)
IMDb 8.2
Summary: Considered the ancestor of '12 Monkeys', this short film is a masterpiece that surprises the audience especially with its ending. The movie starts with a group of people who have taken refuge underground to escape the nuclear effects after World War 3 and send a human subject back to the past, and things get more and more interesting. Because our subject is gradually returning to his childhood.
Cast: Etienne Becker, Jean Negroni (voice-over), Helene Chatelain
Director: Chris Marker
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